Dewan v. Dewan

The plaintiff, Karen Dean Dewan, filed a complaint for divorce and, following trial before a judge in the Probate and Family Court, a judgment of divorce nisi was entered. The plaintiff appealed from the judgment’s property settlement provisions, and the Appeals Court reversed and remanded, holding that the judge erroneously had valued the husband’s pension rights under the Federal employees’ civil service retirement plan as the amount of money that the husband actually had contributed into the plan. Dewan v. Dewan, 17 Mass. App. Ct. 97, 100 (1983). On remand, the judge modified the property…